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The King County Council will decide Sept. 29 whether to require its contractors to pay all employees a living wage in 2015. The ordinance would require any company with a county contract worth more than $100,000 to pay employees the same wage as required ...

Click to view all images Terry Lauber, left, and Dick Foley preform “Wayfarin’ Stranger” during the King County Indigent Burial. Held at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Renton, the Sept. 17 ceremony marked the interment of 137 people. Public Health- Seattle & ...

The King County Housing Authority (KCHA) received more than 22,000 applications for Section 8 rental assistance this month, giving applicants an 11 percent chance they could make a waiting list for the coveted housing service. The voucher program allows c ...

King County’s Family Housing Connections program streamlines the process of getting families into housing Click to view all images Allison Tokar works with Jevon and Alexander at Mary’s Place, a day-center for homeless women and children. Many Mary’s Plac ...

Faced with bigger demand and fewer resources, Meals on Wheels implements wait list for new clients Click to view all images When Bisrat Teki has more than one client in a building, he starts at the top floor and works his way down. Photo by Andrea Sassenr ...

Click to view larger Source: King County Dept. of Assessments In this Seattle, where the cost of land is so high developers double the asking price on ramshackle houses for the dirt underneath, the quest for space to build affordable housing could seem, a ...

Washington state is a pretty OK place for a kid to grow up, but it helps to be White and wealthy, according to data released by a local nonprofit. The report, Kids Count: Databook 2016, ranks the Apple State 15th across the nation using 16 metrics that lo ...

Click to view larger Alisa Christopher and her dog live in Camp Second Chance on Myers Way in West Seattle. Below, the camp’s Honey Buckets. Elected officials, advocacy organizations and even editorial boards are questioning the recent decision by Seattle ...

Click to view all images Members of the press answer questions from South King County community members. Photo by Lisa Edge South King County residents listen to panelists at the media forum held at the Kent Library. Photo by Lisa Edge A grassroots effort ...

Click to view larger Women in Black participants stood outside of the Seattle Municipal Court in the hot sun Aug. 24 to mourn the deaths of two homeless people killed in Kent in August. Photo by Aaron Burkhalter, Real Change Five women, dressed mostly in ...